Severe weather is on the rise, and it’s affecting U.S. homeowners. While the majority of homeowners haven’t had to file a home insurance claim, 70% of those who have said it was for weather-related ...

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Parametric insurance is emerging as a rapid-payout alternative to traditional indemnity-based coverage as extreme weather ...

In 2023, the United States witnessed a record-breaking 28 catastrophic weather events, each inflicting over $1 billion in damages, culminating in a staggering total of $92.9 billion. The J.D. Power ...

Global insurtech MGA Pattern Insurance has announced the launch of its latest weather protection insurance product, the first of its kind for the U.S. travel market. ‘Weather protection’ can help ...

Premiums are already rising. And now insurers are looking at whether homeowners are keeping up the maintenance on, say, roofs. By Paul Sullivan Wildfires in California and Oregon. Hurricanes that ...

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The charitable arm of a publicly traded insurance company is tapping Avalanche and Chainlink to build a decentralized twist on weather insurance. Lemonade (LMND), a $1.7 billion market cap company ...

Sunday marked the official start of the Atlantic hurricane season, a six-month stretch in which warm ocean waters and moist atmospheric conditions create the ideal foundation for tropical cyclones to ...

The floods that devastated parts of southeast Australia last month revealed, yet again, this nation’s growing insurance problem. Assessment of the damage was agonisingly slow, and rising premiums ...